The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting a solo exhibition devoted to a new body of work by N. Dash (b. 1980, Miami). This is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition on the East Coast of the United States. Dash’s work spans painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography, and employs both natural and manmade materials, including pigments, adobe/mud, jute, graphite, fabric, string, styrofoam, and found objects. Across these media, the artist`s principal interests lie both in recording the sensory and informational capacities of touch and revealing typically unobserved conduits of energy: ecological, architectural, and corporeal. The works unfold through what Dash terms a `bifocal` approach, where two minds—under the influence of physical and extrasensory influences—are communing visions both nearby and remote. One of the essential
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